Pythagoras was born in 570 BCE, in Ionia, Greece. He was the one of his kind Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood, a religious movement he initiated in Italy. He established the principles which later inspired the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy. It is said that Pythagoras himself wrote no books, and Pythagoreans invariably supported their discoveries by indiscriminately citing them under their master’s authority.
Like many other exceptional minds, Pythagoras held a peculiar genius to his thoughts and was gifted in recognizing and formulating mathematical and geometric concepts. He came up with the term cosmos and asserted that its structure was based on mathematical laws. He also suggested – what we know today as the harmony of the spheres theory by describing how components in a cosmos moved and positioned akin to the ratios of musical harmonies. It was Pythagoras who abridged mathematics to philosophy and left his legacy through a line of pupils from his school of Pythagorean thought such as Descartes and Russell, who in turn proved to be great mathematicians with groundbreaking discoveries.